> ACROSS AMERICA HONORING A TRAITOR
>
> This is for all the kids born in the 70's that do not remember
this, and
>didn't have to bear the burden, that our fathers, mothers, and older
>brothers and sisters had to bear.Jane Fonda is being honored as one of
the
>"100 Women of the Century." Unfortunately, many have forgotten and
still
>countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the
idea
>of our country but specific men who served and sacrificed during
Vietnam.
>
> The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is
Jerry
>Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1978, the former Commandant of the USAF
Survival
>School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison-the "Hanoi Hilton." Dragged from a
>stinking
> cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJs, he was
>ordered to describe for a visiting American "Peace Activist" the
"lenient
>and humane treatment" he'd received. He spat at Ms. Fonda, was
clubbed, and
>dragged
> away.
>
> During the subsequent beating, he fell forward upon the camp
>Commandant's feet, which sent that officer berserk. In '78, the AF
Col.
>still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying
days)
>from the Vietnamese Col.'s frenzied application of a wooden baton.From
>1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4Es). He spent 6
-years
>in the "Hilton"- the first three of which he was "missing in action".
His
>wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the
>cleaned, fed, clothed routine in preparation for a "peace delegation"
>visit.
>
> They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world
that
>they still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his
SSN
>on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a
>cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking
little
>encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and
"Are
>you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?"
>Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of
>paper.
>
> She took them all without missing a beat. At the end of the line
and
>once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs,
she
>turned to the officer in charge and handed him the little pile of
papers.
>Three men
> died from the subsequent beatings. Col. Carrigan was almost number
four
>but he survived, which is the only reason we know about her actions
that
>day.
>
> I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam, and was
>captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968,
and
>held for over 5 years. I spent 27 months in solitary confinement, one
year
>in a cage
> in Cambodia, and one year in a "black box" in Hanoi. My North
Vietnamese
>captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a
nurse in
>a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the
jungle
>near the Cambodian border.
>
> At one time, I was weighing approximately 90 lbs. (My normal weight
is
>170 lbs.) We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals."
>
> When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist
>political officer if I would be willing to meet with Jane Fonda. I
said
>yes, for I would like to tell her about the real treatment we POWs
received
>different
> from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted
by
>Jane Fonda, as "humane and lenient." Because of this, I spent three
days on
>a rocky floor on my knees with outstretched arms with a large amount
of
>steel placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane till my arms
>dipped.
>
> I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda for a couple of hours
>after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me
on
>TV. She did not answer me.
>
> This does not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of
"100
>Years of Great Women." Lest we forget..."100 years of great women"
should
>never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so
many
> patriots. There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to,
but
>Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them.
>
> Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly
can.
>It will eventually end up on her computer and she needs to know that
we
>will never forget.
